Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 24 pp 25694—25716

Figure 6. Matching of our CR-related DEGs evidenced to be regulated with aging with a curated human CR network. The core clock network (CCN; inner ring) is comprised of a positive (orange) and negative (purple) branch of core clock regulators and has been expanded to an extended core clock network (ECCN; middle ring) as determined by chronobiological meta-analyses in humans [84]. The majority of CR-related genes identified in the present study overlaps (represented in bold) with the human CCN (100% overlap) and ECCN (65.5% overlap). The ECCN was complemented by 13 CR-related genes defined by our aging-related interspecies approach (outer ring), two of which overlapped with newly designated CR genes (bold in outer ring [84]). By mapping to a curated biomedical aging database [101], 85% of the presented interspecies (dark blue background) or human (light blue background) CR-related genes were identified to be aging-associated. The remaining factors (white background) have not yet been annotated to aging but might represent new candidates. ^*, curated CR-related genes without age-related differential expression within the interspecies comparison.